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    Head and Bust of Raphael's 'La Fornarina'

    published 1785

    Etching | RCIN 852042

    An etching of the head and bust of the woman portrayed in Raphael's 'La Fornarina', a painting (c.1518-20) currently in the Galleria Nazionale di Arte Antica, Rome (inv. no.2333). Published in ' Recueil de têtes choisies de personnages illustres dans les lettres et dans les armes éxactement dessinées et gravées de la grandeur des originaux par Paul Fidanza', Rome 1785, plate XXXV. A photograph of the painting at RCIN 852039.
    • Added to the Prince Consort's Raphael Collection (c.1853-76)

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